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Case reports, personal testimonies, newspaper and journal articles about people who have suffered or died from vaccine-preventable diseases
Age Title Summary Published Format*
22 yrs. "Unvaccinated U.S. adult traveling abroad contracts vaccine-associated paralytic polio through contact with a child vaccinated with OPV" Report #82: An Arizona woman contracted paralytic polio while traveling in Central and South American via contact with a child recently vaccinated with OPV.
 
2/6/06 HTML
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8 yrs. "Polio victim entreats parents to say "yes" to vaccines" Report #28: Laura Lake recalls the fear and loneliness she felt when hospitalized for polio at age eight.
 
3/31/00 HTML
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3 yrs. "I awoke one morning unable to walk" Report #5: Sharon Karber, a nurse working in public health, writes about her polio experience as a 3-year-old child in 1953.
 
11/9/98 HTML
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